Christ nre the exemplification of
modern advance. And they are. But
they ought to be more. Unfortunate
ly the church Is associated In the
heathen mind with the vices aa well
as with the virtues of latter-day civil
ization. We as a church at home,
blessed beyond computation by the
(race of God, owe It to the heathen
over all the world to be such an edu
cational and Inspirational force that
they shall see God In us a.nd the
salvation af the nations In the beauty
1 of our religious self-expression. If
iL'. - - J we have an obligation laid upon us
Rrooklyn. N. Y Preaching on the J t0 nsplre, to enthuse, to lead up and
I The Puio7F
A SERMON
Subject: The Church at Home and the
Foreigner.
theme, "The Church at Home and
the Foreigner," at the Irving Square
Presbyterian Church. Hamburg ave
nue and Wolrflcld street, the Rev.
Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took
as his texts Ps. 98:3, "Declare His
Klry among the heathen. His won
ders among all people," and Mark
16:15, "Preach the gospel to every
creature." He said:
The foreign duty of the Church of
Jesus Christ In America Is most In
sistent. The call to the service of
those who are not native to the land
Is mandatory. Whether we look about
us or abroad we find the foreigner
our mightiest problem and the sat
isfaction of the needs of the alien
our greatest care. From many climes
the multitudes have herded to our
shores. Sheep they are that seek a
competent shepherding. They look
to the land of their adoption for the
best that the world holds dear. To
us they come expecting a larger vis
Ion and a larger life. Their hero
ism is magnificent. Their hope Is
Inspiring. Their courage should be
sugniented by the power of our as
sistance. Their faith should be jus
tified by the character of our leader
ship. We have men to make; the
destinies of a nation to determine,
For the fate of the foreigner Is the
future of America. The welfare of
the alien is the concern of the coun
try. The duty or the church of America
to the foreigners Is most. Insistent
because It 1b her largest duty. At
home they are fast out-numbering
the native born in not a few local
ities. Abroad they are unnumbered.
.The foreigu duty of American Chris
tianity Is largest because, there
fore. It Is most numerous.
The Christians, influential and
:onslderable though they are, com
prise a minority of the religious peo
ple of the world. A massive horde
of Mohammedans and B:iddhists,
Confuclanlsts and followers of a hun
dred sects, have yet to learn the
beauty of the unrestricted truth of
God as It la revealed to men. and to
us, In Jesus Christ. The Jews, here
and abroad, are a burden on our
souls. The followers of philosophers
and priests and sages ovor all the
Jarth are orrr special field to whom
In the providence and under the di
rection of the living Christ we must
declare the glory of the one true Ood
and the saving value of His gospel.
We shall sub-divide our duty to
the foreigners, as Christians and as
heathens, at home and abroad.
Cod has sent to our midst a mul-
found that
win, miu i.utiai, .lieu WUU veil! II LU
understand Him more. To these and
to the Christian brethren of other
lands the church of America ha3 a
duty to fulfill. And that duty is
both inspirations! and educational,
The church In America both
Catholic and Protestant ,n spite of
ehort-comlngs and in spite of her
apparent sins is the fairest flower
of the universal church of Christ.
Nowhere else Is there more open
mlndedness and less of self-complacency.
To be sure, we may find
much of intellectual arrogance, of
spiritual narrowness, but taking It
by and large the church In America.
In all Its branches, Is the freest and
l.ost vigorous production of Chris
tian experience, endeavor aud of
Christian fervor that the world has
seen. The duty of that church,
stnndlng as It does at the zenith of
religious progress, 13 to be an Inspir
ation to the Christian churches ol
the earth. Since the days of Christ
the world haa not seen the time
when to be an Inspiration to hu
manity was a more glorious occupa
tion or when the role of prophetic
leuder was more divine.
Seldom has there been an epoch
readier to respond to the call of In
spired leadership than Is ours. Rare
ly has inspiration been more neces
sary or more certain to enter Into
Its reward. And the church abroad
needs the uplift of the example of the
church at home as much as any
foreign Institution in the world. The
Greek church is anything but a credit
to Christianity. The church of Rome
In the United States is the Bait that
savors Catholicism whenever the
mass is sa.d or sung. Much of Euro
pean Protestantism needs a Luther.
The duty of the American Church of
Christ Is to Inspire the multitudes
that are rushing westward to oar
shores to enthuse the soul of the
church abroad by such an example of
fidelity to Christ and of obedience to
His spirit as shall make them all to
feel and to know that the enduring
truth of God Is still Inrlnclble, that
the power of the personality of the
risen Jesus is still supreme.
The duty of the church of Amer
ica la likewise educational. It U
not enough to inspire. It Is not
enough to enthuse. It is not enough
to kindle the fine flame of religious
devotion. We must give Inspiration,
wisdom. We must direct enthu
siasm. We must guard the flame of
devotion and control Its fire. Inspir
ation run riot spells fanaticism. En
thusiasm without direction may in
vite excess. The unmatched flames
may cause a religious conflagration.
And nowhere Is undirected or mis
directed enthusiasm and fervor more
dangerous than In matters religious.
The pagos of authentic history reek
with the record of the crimes of re
ligious arrogancy and of Ill-directed
spiritual exaltation. Many a ghastly
deed has been done. In the name of
the Prince of Peace. Many an In
tellectual and spiritual silliness has
bsi propounded and propagated by
unbridled zeal. The church In Amer
ica, fragrant with the sanity and vis
Ion of the Saviour, ought to give
direction and education to the alms
and yfforts of the church abroad,
i Aa with the church abroad, so
with the Christian foreigners who are
our neighbors. Tu eradicate false
notions and to supply new Ideals; to
purge the foreign mind of all that Is
lesj than noblest and to suffuse It
wit. vitalizing and superb wisdom;
to take the raw material of other
nations and to fashion it Into sub
lime temples for the abode of the
Spirit of God, la the opportunity and
luty of the church at home.
Not otherwise la the duty ot the
church at home to the heathen who
arA here and In the corners of the
earth. The civilization that is most
modern la co-tcrmlnous with the pro
gress and the Influence of Christian
ity I
Modern civilization as we under
stand that term is the product ot
Christian lands and of the genius
of Christian psople. To the heathen
both at ho-iie and abroad modern
civiUza ton uud Christianity are syn
onymous. To bin) the followers of
on and out the Christian hosts of
God, we have at least an equal com
mission to do as much for those be
nighted souls who worship God un
der other than the ensign of the
Cross.
But how shall we be fit to In
spire, to educate, In short, to save?
How may we effect the transforma
tion of the world? How may we
make actunl the majostlc vision of
"the salvation of theworld In thlsgen
eratlon? We can accomplish It only
by being Inspired, educated, snved
1 ourselves. Till we arc these the work
will remain unfinished. Till we are
' consecrated after th(s fashion the la
' bor cannot be completed. For how
I can an uninspired church enthuse''
Can the blind lead the blind? How
I can an Ignorant church educate any
i one In the knowledge of the deeper
truths of the Kingdom of Almighty
! God? How can a people who have
not experienced the Joys of a sure
i salvation declare the glory of Ood
to the heathen and declare "the gos
I pel to every creature?" It can not
be done by any save a church that Is
Itself Inspired, that is Itself versed
' in the eternal mysteries of the truth
! of Ood. that has had the spirit of
life breathed of God Into Its soul.
I By such a church it can be done.
For the world Is ready to receive
; the truth of the simple goapel of
I Christ. In spite of many very in
1 auspicious signs, the times ware nev
j er readier. We are told that in
China, by way of example, Dr. Rob
I ert Morrison labored from 1807 to
, 1834 to secure In the end but two
i converts to the faith of Jesus Christ.
' In 184 0 there was but one Christian
I as the result of missionary effort In the
1 midst of a multitude in China. To
j day there aro 150,000 Chinese Chris
I tians. Of the.se 50.000 have come to
Christ since 1900. The great awak-
enings In Waljs and In India. In Ko
I rea and In America, in e"very quarter
of the globe, prove that the world Is
ready to be Inspired, ready to be led,
! ready to .receive the truth.
The church In America may move
. in tho van of the effort to lift the
l world toward God If she will. Her
1 position Is exalted. Her call Is dl
! vine. Shall we lift or shall we leave
the world? Christ or paganism?
' Which?
Only Christianity can elevate hu
i manlty to the level of the best. Only
I the Church of Christ can transform
I the heathen. The church of the Itv
I ing God in America may, If she will,
I enthus" and regenerate and educate
the worm. For in Christ alone 13
catholic universal mes
sage that meets the necessities of all
the world. Blessed with our vision
v.e shall be cravens If we do not
tear the Pag of Jcbus high aloft and
ahead. "Neither head-strong nor
heart weary," but. in the words of
Dr. Stryker, of Hamilton College, "as
I mediators and contributors to tho
j only time we shall evter have to do
; with," let us "declare His glory
I among the heathen," let us "preach
I the gospel to every creature," let us
' snthuse. Inspire , educate mankind.
! Let us be alive in Christ.
The Sure Guide.
The late Dr. Andrew A. Bonar re-
lated to me the following incident:
j "A man once asked me. 'Is not con
i sclencs a safer guide than the Holy
1 Spirit?' I Just took out my watch
I and said, 'Is not my watch better
l than the sun?' Suppose that I said
to you, 'I will tell you the hour by
! my watch, and you must always take
the time from me.' That Is con
science. It Is the sun that Is to rule
j the time. Conscience Is fallen and
t corrupt. If we had an unfallen con-
science, like holy Adam, it would be
i as If my watch were always to agree
, with sun. But now it is a most tin
i safe guide. Sometimes we hear men
1 say, 'I don't see any harm In this
! practice; my conscience doesn't con
demn it.' it Is not your conscience
: Or your consciousness that Is the rule
of right and wrong; tho law is tho
standard. By the law is the knowl
edge of sin; sin is the transgression
of the law, not of conscience."
Home Herald.
EPWORTH LEAGUt LESSONS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18.
God's Care for the Young Pta. 73:
1-8. Sunday School Interests.
Passages for reference: Deut. 11:
19 21; I'aa. 103: 17. 18; Prov. 3: 1-10;
Isa. 51: 13; Matt. 18: G. 6; Acts. 2:
39.
If parent's taught Ood's truth to
the children they would "set their
hope" In him, and his would be fol
lowed by a remembrance of "the
works of God" and an effort "to keep
his cnniiiinndments" bo that his favor
ml'zht remain upon them. If children
ire thus started enrly, truth will so
deeply root that there will be no old
"roots of stubbornness," but glad obe
dience as they work toward their
"hope.'' Home religion must be cul
tivated by teaching and precept (Deut
11: 19-21) lileRslngs follow the whole
family when It steadily obeys God
(PH I OS: 17. it). Finest health and
prosperity nre Insured to children who
love good and depart from evil (Frov.
3: 110). Pence, not worrlment, conies
from religiously taught children
llsa. 51: It), Little ones are pre
cious to and protected by I he Master
( Malt. 18: C, 61. ko that If they appro
priate the offered blessings God's
Mod promises become theirs (Acts 2:
3? 3ft).
ll iel!gloas svsie-ns that endure bfl
,;in Willi the children. It la constant
ly enforced In the Bible. Mnthusrla'i
was a teacher of the Mislina (a col
lection of traditions and interpreta
tions of Scrlptjre) before the flood.
Shem and Ehor opened a "house of
Instruction" ton the study of the Hal
acha after the deluge. Abraham was
a st-'dent of the Tornh at three years
of age, Jacob, a good boy, went to
Bible sclnxil, while Esau, n bad one,
did not. Dinah got Into trouble by
remaining away from Bible school,
while her brothers were there. Sam
uel started Bible schools which con
tinued until (lie days of Ellsha.
.Joshua was made Moses' successor be
cause zealous and apt In Moses'
tiiilning school. Ahaz closed the
lilhlo schools In order to exterminate
the religion. The chief purpose of tbo
Synagogue was to instruct In and dis
cuss the law. Tl ere was no surprise
at the boy Jesus talking with the re
Hglous doctors. Plato said, "He who
would Ix good In anything must prac
tice that thing from his youth up."
Th Scriptures say, "Train up a child
lu the way he should go, and when
he Is old ho will not depart from it."
Saint Prancil Xavler (a Roman Ca
thollc) said, "Give me a child until he
is seven years old and you can have
him Uw rest, of the time."
AUGUST EIGHTEENTH.
The Bridge of Faith.
Are we not dally all through life's
iourney trusting ourBelveB to bridges
whose supporting piers are away
town beneath the water, believing In
their strength without a doubt, won
dering or complaining when by
chance one of them trembles or
swerves a hair's breadth In the
storm? We walk the bridge of life,
fan we not trust its safety on the
sreat resting places of Ood's wisdom
that are hid from 01 In the depths
it the two eternities? Phillips
Brooks.
The value of decision. Eph. 4: 14, 15;
Jas. 1: 1-8.
Israel's decision. Josh. 21: 15-22.
Sincere decision. 2 Chron. 15: 813,
An oath bound decision. Neh. 10:
I 28, 29.
Decision demanded. 1 Kings 18:
i 1921.
Decision rewarded. Josh. 1 : 7, 8.
Firm decision. Acts 21: 1114.
It Is the beauty of tenrhable child
hood that It believes everything; it
: Is the g'.ory of taught manhood that
J It proves all things, holding fast that
( only which is good.
I Firmness of character Is a slow
growth. No reed but outgrows an oak
tree.
Doubt, harbored In any part of tho
life, renders it all unstable.
N'othing so contributes to flrmnojj
of character as simplicity of aim.
Suggestions.
One of the best ways to train th"
j mind tn decision Is to do hard and
I disagreeable things.
i)b,t!iu.cy is decision, plus selfish
ness and egotism.
I Indecision Is a terrible waste of
I strength and time, doing with each
of a soi ies of acts what need be done
only with the first.
I Indecision is a habit which grows
upon one, as a river, when It begins
to bend, winds ever more meander
ingly. Illustrations.
Obstinacy Is the firmness of a
frozen post; decision, the firmness of
Iron set In stone.
Kven delicate frames become de
cisive through earnestness, as a can
dle may be fired through a board.
However sharp Its point, an arrow
Is valueless without its feather, ns
firmness is useless without good Judg
ment. All the life of an undecided man 13
Mice a legal deed that lacks the signature.
The ;race That Brings Happiness.
Let ub seek the grace of a cheerful
heart, and even temper, sweetness,
gentleness und brightness of mind, as
walking In His light, and by His
grace. Let us pray to Him to give
us the spirit of evor-abundaut, ever
spiinglng love, which ovei powers and
sweeps away the vexations of life by
Its own richness and strength, and
which, above all things, unites ub to
Him who is the fountain and centre
of all mercy, loving kindness and Joy.
John Henry Newman,
Tull Shooting In West Virginia.
There is an old Confederate soldier
now visiting some friends In Green
brier Cour.ty, W. Vs., who was a holy
terror In buttle. He was a shot from
wayback. He came to the reunion at
Richmond and stopped off. Among
hlB feats or marksmanship the fol
lowing simple exploits, we are told,
are performed: He can suspend a
bottle by a. string, shoot and cut the
string and then break the bottle with
another shot before It hits the
ground. With a small calibre gun
und a large lead pencil he can knock
the lead out when the pencil la
thrown Into the air, and not Injure
;he wood covering. A favorite pas
time with him Is to start a hurrel roll
ing down hill and put a bullet
through the bunghole every time the
barrel turnB over. We call this good
shooting. Staunton Spectator.
London's newest music-hall, the
vast Coliseum, In St. Martin's Lane,
ompleted at Christmas, 1904, a
structure erected at enormous ex
ptvuse, U to be sold by auction
FLOWERS CHANGE COLORS.
"This bed of flowers was blue this
morning, and now it Is pink. That
one was white, and it is now rose.
The one by the hedge was yellow
yesterday, and to-day It Is purple."
The gardener chuckled delight
fully. "i call 'em my fairy flower beds,
ma'am," he said. "You see, they
change color. It's a grand Idea, iBn't
It?- It gives a garden such variety."
"But I didn't know that any flow
ers change their color."
"Oh, yes. That bed you first men
tioned is the mutable phlox. At sun
rise it 1b blue, and in the afternoon
It Is pink.
"The one to the right Is hibiscus
hibiscus mutabllls. It goes through
three changes tn the day, from white
In the morning to rose at noon and
red at sunset.
"The bed by the hedge La the lan
tana. The lantana la yellow one day,
orange the next, and red the third
Its changes are slow.
"There's other flowers, too. ihat
change. There's the chelranlhus
chamele, that shifts from white to
yellow and from yellow to red
There's th gladiolus versicolor,
that's brown In the morning and blue
In the evening. There's the coles
Iscandens, that moves slowly from
'greeulsh white to a deep violet."
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
BREAKFAST FOOD.
Racks -"What kind of breakfasf
food do you use?"
Sacks "Whatever happens to j
on the first page. Generally a mur
der." Harper's Weekly.
Peary's Last Dash For the Pole ! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Pasture For Hogs.
For late pastures for the hogs bow
a mixture of rape, oats and barlsy
on the earliest harvested grain fields.
Besides furnishing a fine supply of
green feed, the hogs will do a good
Job cleaning up the field. Farmers'
Home Journal.
Clean the Trough Thoroughly.
It is very essential, if you want
your lambs to eat, that you always
sweep your troughs out thoroughly
before you put in fresh grain. And
when you teed more grain than the
lambs will clean up In, say, twelve
hours, don't leave It until Lhey have
finished it. but sweep it out and put
In fresh. These sweepings need not
be wasted, as other live stock will
eat them, but you might better waste
them than to attempt to make the
lambs eat them. Delaware Farm
id Home.
Fertilising Value of Clover.
A speaker at a Wisconsin farmers'
Institute calls attention to the fact
that clover has a big value ns a fer
tilizing crop. For Wisconsin there
io about eight dollars of fertility In
a ton of clover hay, and It 1b worth
three-quarters of that In manure
after it has been fed. Therefore, If
an acre yields two tons of clover hay,
having a feeding value of $ 1 C, and It
Is fed on the land, so that $12 of fer
tilizer can be returned to the soil, a
value of 28 would be realized, and
In addition there would be one-third
of the crop In the ground, which
would remain In the soli to fertilize
It, supplying the important element
of humus. Weekly Witness.
Removing Stones.
Do you know of a machine mp.de
for gathering small siones on n field?
I have beer told that some one manu
factures a machine for that purpose
that works to great advantage and is
a great labor-saver, but I have never
seen one advertised myself, and the
man who told me that he had sjsn it
did not know where It was purchased.
J. N. C. '
Stones six Inches and smaller may
be gathered in rows with an A-shaped
frame and harrow teeth. Load with
four or alx-tine fork, unload by
dump-boards or square pointed
shovel. A mud-sled Is best for short
hauls, but must be unloaded by
shovel. If you use a mud-sled, have
a five-foot stake at hind end, and
fasten MneB to this; then a touch to
either line with fork-handle guides
the team and saves time. Country
Gentleman.
Calf Scours.
Professor Shaw, of the Michigan
College, says concerning the treat
ment ot scours in calves. "One of the
best things we have used and are
using almost altogether with which
to suppress outbreuks of calf scours,
Is a mitture of tincture of rhubarb,
camphor and opiate, equal parts in
hot water, about a teaspoonful. One
of the most interesting recoveries I
have ever seen was about three
weeks ago lu the case of a calf that
scoured and was so near death the
feet were stretched out cold und
stiff, and there was every symptom
of death. The calf was treated In
that way twice, then fed with raw
eggs and milk oecaslonally, and he
recovered. Ho wbb the Blckest calf
I ever saw; so sick his hair all came
off after a week or ton dayb, but ho
Is one of the best feeders we have
in the bunch to-day."
Too Much Alfalfa.
I am Inclined to believe that some
Of us have made mistakes by sowing
too much alfalfa seed. Two years
ago, on our farm, we prepared
twenty acres of land for this crop
plowing in July after wheat, and
harrowing it eight or ten times, get
ting it into the finest tilth Imagin
able. This made an Ideal seed bed
We sowed twenty pounds of good
alfalfa seed to the acre, and I am
confident that the stand was entirely
too thick. There Is a distinct rela
tion betweou the uniount of seed to
use and the state of preparation of
the land. I think that on land pre
partd like that above described ten
pounds of seed would have made an
excellent stand. However, if the
land is cloddy or otherwise In bad
condition, it may be necessary to use
even as much as thirty-five pounds
of seed. Usually It will be cheaper
to put the laud In an Ideal condition
of tilth and use a smaller quantity
of seed.-W. J. Splllman, in Hoard's
Dairyman.
Practical Poultry Points.
If hens lay soft-shelled eggs, U Is
a good Indication that they need
lime, ami a supply should he kept
where they can help themselves.
Whitewash the hen bouse fre
quently Lime will not only arrest
disease to a certain extent, but de
stroys lice, also 111 odors, and gives
a neat, clean appearance to the place.
Have movable perches, tbey are
more easily kept clean.
Plant sunflowers in the waste cor
ners. They are said to he valuable
In warding off malaria, and they cer
tainly furnish, lu their seed, a fine
dessert for the poultry In winter, es
pecially the laying hens.
Place the mother hen's coop in, or
near, the garden, so that the little
chicks can halp you In your warfara
against Insects. They are too small
to do any harm by scratching, and
by having the run of the garden they
will very materially lessen the rar
ages by insects there. American
Cultivator.
A Valuable Leguminous Crop.
Many farmers do not reallzo the
value of nitrogenous plants In the Im
provement of the soil, being disposed
to estimate only their food value or
market price compared with other
crops and the labor required for their
cultivation. It Is a great mistake to
look only to (the Immediate cash re
turns regardless of the condition of
the land after the crop has been har
vested, for there Is a great difference
In the comparative values of crops
that exhaust the fertility of the soil
and those which do not exhaust, but,
on the contrary, add fertilizing ele
ments thereto. All leguminous r'anls
do this and therefore they should be
planted In rotation for the benefit of
crops that are to follow them.
The soja bean, which Is not well
known In this country,- being from
Japan, contains more protein and fat
than the cow pea. Ono of the advan
tages with both crops is that the
vines are highly relished by cattle
and where crops are grown and hogs
turned in to do the harvesting, the
results have been very satisfactory
and the land improved. Those who
have grown the soja bean commend it
highly. It has but few beans in a
pod, while the cow pea (which la
really a bean) has half a dozen, but
the soja bean has many more pods
than the cow pea. The boJb bean
grows from two to four feet high
and ripens about the first of October,
but if the vines are preferred for hay
they may be cut down about the lat
ter part of August. As much as forty
bushels of seed per acre have been
grown on good land, under favorable
conditions. There are several varie
ties, the dwarf kinds being mostly
preferred. The soja bean is quite
hardy and can stand a slight touch
of 'frost, but the cow pea thrives only
under climatic conditions favorable
for garden beans.
It is better to procure seed of the
soja bean grown in the North, if
possible, as the seed from very far
South is not well adapted to the
Northern climate. The growing of
the soja beans and cow peas widens
the farmer's privileges by giving him
two crops rich in seed and vine and
of qualities that serve to assist him
In winter when variety of food may
be necessary In order to keep the
stock in thrifty condition. Canada
has made her field pea a leading crop
for years and greatly to her advan
tage. With cow peas and soja beans
our farmers can grow better foods
with no additional expense than from
grain crops, while the soil can be
greatly Increased in fertility by plow
ing under the vines, especially If lime
Is also used on the laud. Epltomist.
Beautify the Farm Home.
Every farm heme should have a
lawn regardless of the size of the
farm and of the dwelling. There ii
no more eujoyablo place to live than
In a comfortable farm home, which
is snugly surrounded by a beautiful
lawn and shade trees. A pretty lawn
and shade trees are necessary luxu
ries within the reach of every farm
er. The co3t for trees,' plants and
grass seed Is comparatively nothing,
while the benefits and pleasure to be
derived are considerable. If farm
homes and farm life were more at
tractive and pleasant, there would be
less trouble encountered about keep
ing the children on the farm. More
over, pleasant surroundings have an
uplifting effect upon character, es
pecially those of immature persons.
A farm house may appear small and
uninviting lu a treeless yard, but if
it were to be surrounded by a lawn,
a few ornamental or fruit trees, there
would be a decided change for the
better and the same place would be
made to appear cozy and cheerful.
And it only takes a few trees and
some grass to make the change.
Those who already have lawns and,
perchance some shade trees, should
endeavor to make the lawn still more
beautiful. Provide better trees and
more of them if there is plenty of
room. Replace those old Cottonwood
and soft maple trees with better and
more beautirul ones. There Is noth
ing better for both landscape effect
aud windbreak purposes than hardy
varieties of evergreen spruce, pine
and fir. Many a farm has a tidy and
comfortable appearance because such
treeB are set wide apart In the lawn
and associated with arbor vltae
hedges that are properly trimmed
and cared for. Fine flowering and
foliage shrubs are cheap and plenti
ful these days and should have a
place around every farm home. But
it Is by no means necessary or de
sirable to crowd the lawn with trees
aud shuhbery; indeed one of tho first
principles of correct landscape gar
dening Is to feBerve a wide expanse
of lawn, placing the shrubbery main
ly In masses in corners.
After trees have been set out in
the lawn, the matter should not atop
there. The highways would look
much belter If the owners of the
farms would set out some good trees
along the roadside. Of course they
should not be set so close together
that the;- would shade und sap the
fields too much for the good ot the
crops. But a row of hard maple, elm
or black walnut trees, set at regular
Intervals, is a valuable addition to
every farm. And besides improv
ing appearances, the trees may be
utilized sometimes for wire string
ing. Uncle Rural, lu The Epltomist.
Killed Uninjured.
"Gentlemen of the Jury," erupted
tho attorney for the plaintiff, ad
dressing the twelve Arkansas peers
who were sitting in Judgment and on
their respective shoulder blades, lu
a damage suit ugalnst a grasping cor
poration (or killing a cow, "It the
train had been running as slow as It
should have been ran, If the bell had
been rung as it ort to have been
rang, or the whistle had been 'blown
as It ahould have been blew, none
of which was did, the cow would not
have been injured when she was
killed " Kansas City Times.
By FRKDKRK'K noVD RTEVENSON
Will he make ItT"
I : sked him this question the Mher
day. He turned In his chair and
looked at me. The muscle In his
face half relaxed. Peary seldom
smiles.
"I hope to make It," he said,
quietly. "This will be my 1. at at
tempt. I believe It will be success
ful." Despite the softnesr of !b voice
one felt the conviction of conquest.
He gave no promise, no hint of t.u
breaking of the Far North record in
1906, when he advanced within tv i
hundred miles ot the goal. There
was no boasting of past achiv.-emen:;
no speculating on future glories.
Peary is perhaps better qualified
than any other In this quest of the
pole. He began It twenty years ago,
and on each of the seven Journeys 111
has made to the arctic zone he has
been pushing farther and fartbe:
north. In hla heart Is the confidence
of sue'eda on this eighth Journey.
The beginning and the end of a
polar expedition may be expressed lu
one word," said the Commai 1--.
' That Is too- It la not the cold, .:
Is not the exposure, but the fai.ure .
supplies that wrecks the enterprise.
Three things are actually needed for
f : In the north: pemmican a
dried meat that can be made into
soup ship-biscuit and tea. lea is .
stimulant, so one can get clon;; with
out that; ship-biBcults nre a luxur;-,
so one can get along without them;
but pemmican is a necessity that one
must have In the arctic region."
But a car who confesses to have
eaten raw dog with a relish may
not be generally considered as a pur
veyor of tempting menus.
"Dog meat?" Penry repeated.
"Why, one who can cat hog moat or
cheese can have nothing to say
against dog. To be sure, the hind
leg of an overworked dog Is a little
tough and rank sometimes, but a
man who has eaten mutton stew In a
cheap i tain in. cannot complair,
nor is he apt to complain when tha
gnawings of his appetite attack him
with the temperature seventy degrees
i elow zero. The dogs reai'.lly eat
their comrades when they fall by the
way, and t Is, to a great extent,
solves the problem of feeding tb )
animals. I have considered the
question ot taking dog-biscuit with
me on my dash to the polo; but
while the Slberlau dogs will eat it,
the dogs which I use on my expedi
tions practically all wolf will eat
nothing but meat."
"How about alcoholic drinks?" I
asked.
The answer came decisively:
"No man can drink alcoholic
liquor who goes to the north. It
would mean death to the man and a
menace to tho expedition."
"And smoking?"
"The man who is dependent on his
cigar or his pipe might better remain
at home. Why, I should as soon
think of taking a man who had to
have a piece of pie ever so often.
The personnel of your men Is the
first consideration. Upon them de
pends everything. In the first place
they must be of cheerful tempera
ment and not subject to fits of the
blues, and every man must under
stand in advance that he must meet
the greatest hardships and seif-de-nlals.
He must be willing to suffer
cold and hrnger, to forego Bleep In
a word, to be ready to sacrifice his
life, if need be, for the Buccess of the
undertaking."
"Have you found such men?"
He nodded.
"Yes; for the most part they are
the same men who went with me be
fore. 1 can trust, every one of them
under every circumstance."
Peary has been so long In the
arctic game that the question dress
for the North has ceased to concern
him. While on his sledge trips he
sleeps in the open air on the Ice in a
sleoptng-bag ot fur, clad only In an
undershirt. When he arises ..3 has
tily pulls on a pair of drawers which
have frozen during tho night. H! I
trousers and socks are fill a! with
snow, but he puta them on undaunted
and, quickly thrusting his feet into a
pair of kamiks, or shoes, also filled
with snow and Ice, and pulling on a
big fur overcoat, he is ready for hie
day'a Journey.
"One does not mind the cold I.i
the north," said he. "The tempera
ture ransos from fifty above to
seventy-five below zero, and If a man
takes care ot himself he need suffer
no Inconvenience on account of the
weather. There Is really no danger
of freezing to death in the arctic
zone." Harper's Weekly.
INTERNATIONAL LKSSON COM
MENTS FOR AUG. IS BY TflK
REV. I. '. HENDERSON. ,
His Use For a Fork.
A Denver man had a friend from
a Kansas ranch in the city Saturday
on a business deal, and at noon they,
went to a downtown restaurant and
had lunch together. The Kansas
ranchman ute his entire meal with
his knife. When he was nearing the
end he discovered something he dis
covered that he had no fork.
"Say," he said to the Denver man,
"that waiter didn't give me a fork."
"Well, you don't need one," re
plied the Denver man seriously.
"The deuce I won't," came from
the Kansan. "What am I going to
stir my coffee with?" Denver Post.
Subject: The Day ot Atonement,
Lev. 10:5-22 Golden Text,
Hch. 7:80 Memory Verse, 2
Commentary.
The day of atonement and the
ceremonies thereto attendant Im
press upon our minds facts that are
Inseparable In our religious expe
rience. First, the fact of sin. Sec
ondly, the necessity for confession of
sin. Thirdly, the forgiveness of sin.
Fourthly, the forgetting of sin.
The day and the lesson of that day,
which we shall study. Impress other
thoughts upon us but wo shall con
fine ourselves to these.
The day of atonement Is a recog
nition of and an emphasis upon the
fact of sin. The offering Is for sin.
The confession Is a confession of sin.
The scapegoat atones for sin, is an
earnest of the forgiveness of sin, Is
the example of Go-I forgetfulness of
forgiven sin. And all this rests up
on the basic consciousness of human
sinfulness. For whatever may be
our opinion as to how and when and
why sin enters Into the lite of the
Individual and of humanity we must
all agree that sin Is a fact, that the
consciousness of sin Is the first step
toward the affirmation of proper re
lationships with Ood after we have
fallen away from Him. Whatever the
Ideal Itfo may be we are to-day sin
ning against God. However useless
and fruitless and wicked and unnec
essary sin may be from any point of
view the fact of humanity's present
and prevalent sinfulness remains.
The fact of sin Is inescapable.
Equally conscious are we that the
only hope of escape from sin lies in
the confession of our unworthlness
to the living Ood. However philo
sophical we may be, and however
learned we may be; whatever may
be the peculiar twlats of our state
ments of the problem of sin and sal
vation, we must all come, and all of
us do come, to this common ground
that without confession of and re
pentance for sin there can be no for
giveness, no salvation.
Also we know that forgiveness
follows In hot haste upon confes
sion. Perhaps we had better say
.hat forgiveness meets confession
ind more than half the way. Even
is Ood met the high priest on the
arth as the commissioner of the
people so He stands just beside the
sonfession soul and holds forth par
don for confessed sin.
The scapegoat never carried a sin
io far into the dessert of forgetful
ness as God can and does. When
God forgives He forgets. And He ex
pects In the proper sense to do the
same and if experience counts for
anything He aids in this process of a
proper forgetfulness of sin. For
giveness that is not correlated with
forgetfulness Is no forgiveness at all.
We would not want even God to
hound us with tho memory of for
given sins.
All these lessons are linked with
the story of the day of atonement.
It is no wonder that the day of
atonement Is even to-day the mighty
day in the Jewish calendar. The
modern Jew may not go to syna
gogue for fifty weeks a year, but he
Is no Jew who forgets the day ot
atonement. Why? Because the day
of atonement touches the universal
note in the Jewish heart. It taps the
spring of his deepest experience and
of his direst need.
The fact of Bin is one that we
ought not to overlook. It ought not
to be overemphasized, but It had
rather be overemphasized than for
gotten. Man is made in the Image of
God. He Is created a little lower
than Jehovah. He has Inalienable
birthrights as a son of God. But
man Is also a sinner. And his sin la
.worse as we understand his relation
to divinity and his ancestry. We
must not let men forget the fact of
sin. We must not withhold condem
nation of their evil. We must por
tray the exceeding vlclousness of sin.
1 For if we do not convict men of sin
they will not confess it. And no man
without a comprehension of tho real
nature of the consequences of his
wilfulness will confess his sin. We
must make men understand the enor
mity of sin or they will not confess It.
And conscious unconfessed Bin Is the
worst hell that Ood or man can de
vise. "Confession Is good tor the
soul" Is more than a phrase.
Forgiveness follows confession.
And forgetfulness completes the
work. God pardons and He erases
the record. His forgetting enhances
His forgiving. And He not only for
gets, but He enables us to forget.
And It Is right we should. The mem
ory of sin is one of the most spirit
ually debilitating things that we can
Imagine. To be sure, we should
profit by our mistakes. But we
should not be unnerved by our re
membrance of them. What you vere
you were. Forgiven of God In Christ
iyou are no longer what you were.
Behold, all things are passed away.
You are a new creature. You are
what you are. There are few, if any,
greater joys in life than the sense of
forgiven and forgotten sin. A Bin
unconfessed Is a scar unhealed. A
sin confessed Is a sin healed.
The day of atonement is a profit
able subject of study because it Is
linked with facts. And It Is linked
with facts that we can well discount
or avoid if we are as a church to do
Our work for the regeneration aud
salvation of the world to God through
Christ. Christ recognized the fact ot
fin and we shall be Imbeciles If we
hut our eyes to It The solution ot
ts problem In the world Is our work.
God grant we shall face It with cour-
Paternal Duties.
Modern life, with Its haste and hus
tle, leaves too little time for the Joys
of fatherhood. One father comes
home late from business, tired und
peevish, and cannot devote much
time to his children, even If he would. 1
Another has had euough of the cares 1
and worries of the day, and seeks dls- 1
slpation outside the home. Yet fa
thers can give their children some
thing better than money; they can
give themselves. Deutsche Mount-schrift.
Welcoming the Stork.
Out at Ellla the stork was wel
comed thus by the Review-Herald ;
"A feather from the wJng of the
angel of love was dropped into the
lap of motherhood at the home ot
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walz on the 20tlt
of this month. Dr. Howell reports
j 'mother and son In first-class coudl
tiou. Kutisas City Journal.
MtrrQM as Detectives.
"It is not solely to pleaso the lady
patron:, " said an Interior decorator,
"that mirrors soaboundlnshops. The)
serve another and a more Important
purpose. They detect shoplifters.
"If you should study the various
watchers In the employ of big retail
stores you would find that they don't
watch the patrons directly. They
watch their reflections In the mirrors.
"Of course their watching done
that way Is unperceived. The shop
lifter glanoea at the watcher, sees'
that his back Is to her, and secrets a
pair ot silk stockings in her blouse.
"Alas! the next moment she feels
an unfriendly and terrifying tap on
the shoulder! and the watcher, who
aha caught her by the mirror's aid,
bids her sternly to accompanying hlni
to the office " Philadelphia Bulle
tin. EXTRA BAD.
"Your cook "
"Oh, she is so careleus that I don't
believe she could drop a remark with
out breaking her word." Smart Set